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South Africa
South Africa Top 100 Opera Albums Chart
What is the number 1 Opera album in South Africa today?
The number 1 Opera album in South Africa today is Lortzing: Hans Sachs by Various Artists.
The South Africa Top 100 Opera Albums Chart tracks the most popular Opera albums on Apple Music & iTunes in South Africa.
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Rossini: The Barber of Seville (Highlights - Sung in German)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Solistenvereinigung des Berliner Rundfunks, Peter Schreier, Hermann Prey & Otmar Suitner
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Verdi: Rigoletto (2 CDs)
Dame Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, London Symphony Orchestra, Sherrill Milnes & Richard Bonynge
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The Very Best of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro
Philharmonia Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorus, Carlo Maria Giulini, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Giuseppe Taddei & Fiorenza Cossotto
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Enrico Caruso: Le più belle romanze
Enrico Caruso, Orchestra del Teatro San Carlo, Coro del Teatro San Carlo & Oliviero de Fabritiis
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Mascagni: Cavaleria Rusticana - Milanov, Gismondo, Rayson - Cellini
Mascagni: Cavaleria Rusticana - Milanov, Gismondo, Rayson - Cellini
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Strauss: Die Fledermaus
Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Ackermann, Karl Terkal & Gerda Scheyrer
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Puccini: La bohème (Ausschnitte)
Wiener Volksoper Orchester, Franz Bauer-Theussel, Waldemar Kmentt & Gerda Scheyrer
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Essential Wagner: His Very Best Opera & Orchestral Music, Including Ride of the Valkyries, Wedding March, the Tristan Prelude, Die Meistersinger & Excerpts from the Ring Cycle
Various Artists
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Verdi: Nabucco (I Capolavori di Opera Lirica)
Orchestra Dell'Arena Di Verona & Coro dell' Arena di Verona
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Verdi: Don Carlos
Teatro Alla Scala Orchestra, Gabriele Santini, Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano & Norberto Mola
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The Best of Madam Butterfly: The Opera Masters Series
The Orchestra Of The Accademia di Santa Ceclia, Rome
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Dvořák: Kate and the Devil
Natalie Romanova-Achaladze, Pavel Kamas, Josef Pančík & Brno Janáček Opera Orchestra
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Turandot
Cape Town Municipal Orchestra, University of Cape Town Opera Chorus, David Tidboald, Joyce Barker, Gé Korsten & Desiree Talbot
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Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia (Recorded Live at The Met - October 1, 2011)
The Metropolitan Opera, Isabel Leonard, Javier Camarena, Peter Mattei, Maurizio Muraro, Paata Burchuladze & Maurizio Benini
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Puccini: Madame Butterfly
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Tullio Serafin, Renata Tebaldi & Carlo Bergonzi
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La Bohéme - Giacomo Puccini
Teatro Alla Scala Orchestra, Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano & Carlos Kleiber
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Fifty Shades of Opera - 50 Sensual Arias
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, John Landor, Czech Symphony Orchestra & Julian Bigg
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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf sings Operetta
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Orchestra Philharmonia & Otto Ackermann
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Jules Massenet: Sapho
National Philarmonic Orchestra of Belarus, Jean-Luc Tingaud, Wexford Festival Opera Chorus & Lubomir Matl
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Rossini: the Barber of Seville
Robert Merrill, Roberta Peters, Cesare Valletti, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, The Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Erich Leinsdorf
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Lisa della Casa und Anneliese Rothenberger in Opernszenen von Richard Strauss
Lisa Della Casa, Anneliese Rothenberger, Staatskapelle Dresden & Rudolf Neuhaus
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Smetana: Dalibor
Zdeněk Košler, Prague National Theatre Orchestra, Ivan Kusnjer, Eva Urbanová & Leo Marian Vodicka
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Essential Opera Collection. 50 Greatest Arias of the Bel Canto Composers: Bellini, Donizetti & Rossini
Antonello Gotta & Compagnia d'Opera Italiana
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Ponchielli: La Gioconda (Recorded Live at The Met - March 31, 1962)
The Metropolitan Opera, Eileen Farrell, Franco Corelli, Robert Merrill, Nell Rankin, Giorgio Tozzi & Fausto Cleva
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Mozart: Don Giovanni
Herbert von Karajan, Leontyne Price, Cesare Valletti, Wien Philharmonic Orchestra & Wien State Opera Chorus
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Straus: Ein Walzertraum (Querschnitt)
Das grosses Operettenorchester, Franz Marszalek, Sándor Kónya & Herta Talmar
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Jewels of the Bel Canto: Arias by Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi & Rossini
Northern Sinfonia, Richard Bonynge & Elena Xanthoudakis
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Bellini: Norma Interpreted By Maria Callas (Maria Callas: The Greatest Opera Voice)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House & Vittorio Gui
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Strauss: Arabella
Bavarian State Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch & Chor der Bayerischen Staatoper
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Puccini: Turandot
Renata Tebaldi, Birgit Nilsson, Jussi Björling, Orchestra of the Rome Opera House, Coro del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma & Erich Leinsdorf
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Beethoven: Fidelio
Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, Chorus of the Vienna State Opera & Wilhelm Furtwängler
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Dvořák: Rusalka, Op. 114 by Zdeněk Chalabala (Remastered 2023, Studio 1961)
Zdeněk Chalabala, Milada Šubrtová & Prague National Theatre Orchestra
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Dvořák: Dimitrij. Opera in 4 Acts, Op. 64
Czech Radio Chorus, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Czech Philharmonic & Gerd Albrecht
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Dvořák: Tenor Arias
Miroslav Kopp, Magdaléna Hajóssyová, Jiřina Marková, Ludek Vele, Zdeněk Košler, Pavel Kühn, Czech Philharmonic & Kuhn Mixed Choir
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Smetana: The Bartered Bride. Highlights from the Opera
Czech Philharmonic & Zdeněk Košler
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Verdi: Aïda
Antonietta Stella, Giuseppe di Stefano, Antonino Votto & Teatro Alla Scala Orchestra
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Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin, Op. 24 (Recorded Live at The Met - February 14, 2009)
The Metropolitan Opera, Thomas Hampson, Karita Mattila, Piotr Beczala & Jiří Bělohlávek
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Puccini: Tosca (Recorded Live at The Met - January 29, 2011)
The Metropolitan Opera, Sondra Radvanovsky, Marcelo Álvarez & Marco Armiliato
![Cover art for Sergey Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91 [1961] by Various Artists](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music6/v4/4f/01/15/4f01152f-8356-eaa4-cd78-ae9aa99cd0f5/889176765360.jpg/170x170bb.png "Sergey Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91 [1961] by Various Artists — number 83 in the South Africa Top 100 Opera Albums Chart")
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L'elisir d'amore - Gaetano Donizetti
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Choir of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & John Pritchard
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Verdi: Otello
Kon Vickers, Leonie Rysanek, Tito Gobbi, Orchestra dell'opera di Roma, Coro Dell'Opera Di Roma & Tullio Serafin
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Joseph Keilberth, George London & Astrid Varnay
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Strauss: Salome
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Fritz Reiner, Set Svanholm & Ljuba Welitsch
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Mozart: Così fan tutte (Mono Version)
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Léopold Simoneau, Herbert von Karajan & Philharmonia Orchestra
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Bondeville: Madame Bovary (Mono Version)
George Sebastian & National Orchestra of Belgium
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Puccini: Tosca, Extracts (French Version, Mono Version)
Paris Opera Orchestra, Georges Prêtre & Régine Crespin
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Verdi: Rigoletto
Aldo Protti, Hilde Gueden, Mario del Monaco, Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia di Roma, Coro dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia di Roma & Alberto Erede
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Rossini: Stabat Mater (Mono Version)
Ferenc Fricsay, RIAS Symphonie-Orchester, Chor der St. Hedwigs-Kathedrale Berlin & RIAS Kammerchor
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